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PHOTGRAPHIC APPARATUS.

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4 Sheets; Shet 4.

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H. KUHN.

PHOTOGRAPHIG APPARATUS.

Patented July 12, 1887.

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Louis, {A ssienoii-frol HENRY' A. HYATT, `(i3 Kinxvvoon, Missouni,

SPECIFICATION forming pakt of Letters receptivo. 366,225, dated .ruiy 12.1987; v

Application filed October 7, 18H5.

Be it known that I, HENRY KUHNjof St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and. useful Improvement in Photographic Apparatus, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. y, y y

The apparatus in question is. dcsigned'for taking a sheetv of multiple photographic pictures, the pictures being arranged regularly upon the sheet and alongside lbut dist-inet from f cach other and all taken ata single exposure. Such pictures I term stampportrai ts, as in size and general appearance they resemble postage-stamps. To produce them .economically,alargenuinloer-in practicetwenty-vemust/be taken at a time and u'ponacomparatively small plate-s`ay,aiive by Seven (inches) plate`and by copying, as from a cabinet-photograpii. n z

The improvement is carried lout asfollows: The distance betweenthe picture copied and plate upon which the multiple ward not changed. A lens-holder containing as many lenses as there are pictures to be taken upon the sheet is interposed between the picture to be copied and the sensitized plate. rllie adjustment of the lenses requires careful consideration. They must be disposed relativclyto cach other and to the picture io be copied and the sensitized plate, so that the pictures to be produced shall be uniformly arranged n pon the sheet ofequal size and equally distinct, and so that while in immediate proximity to cach other they are clearly distinct capable of being separated i'roin each other, and when separated heilig finished picturessubstantially coexten` sive with the lines ol' sepaiat-ion. To this end the lenses are located and grouped as hereinafterspccially designated, and fromeaeh lens a compartment extends to the sensitized plate, or, preferably, aim est to the sensitized plate,-as hereinafter explained. The sheet of multiple pictures being larger Ain arca than the space occupied vby the lenses, and the lenses'being associated as hereinafter shown, the compartineiiis enlarge in'the direction of the sensitiled plates, being at the end toward the lensesof similar proportions.

' plate to a rg'r shaped to receive 'Serial No. 179,2?3. (No model.)

PATENT. @FiCE/i-A coinciding in sizeand shape with the. picture to be taken. fr

It is obvious that in multiple photographyie., where a number of so-eal'led facsimile photographs are produced through a corresponding number of lenses from a single object-the pictures eannot'be mathematically exact facsimiles, for the reason that the lenses cannot .all occupy the same positionrelative to theobject. Each lenshas its own position with relation to the object, and eaclireceives the rays of light ytherefrom opia different an,- gle, according `to its said position. The concentration of the lenses into as smalla fieldas possible,and consequent approximatioiito the 1 position of the central lens with relation to the if object, offers the nearest approach to pereetioninl the production of fac-similes.` At the' same time it is impossible thatthevnegatiye and sheet of4 photographic pictures shouldbe of so small area as itis-desirable and possible to have the eld ofthe' lenses. While oon-A c'entrating the lens-field therefore for. the purf pose above described, I foeusthe lenses in a manner that may be called radial/L7 so that j the field of their transmitted rays upon the sensitive plate may be of much greater .area

than said lens-field and produce a proportionately larger photographic sheetthroiigh bot-h fields,and the face of each picture may, by the arrangement of parts hereinafter described, be f rlhe light-excluding compartments will be arranged in a manner to correspond with this focusing vof the lenses.

inent ofthe walls ofthe compart1nent. It

,85 Their arrangement may be described. as raenlargvreferring tovv the will be understood that it ispossible to coni i centrate l the lens field, and to so focus the lenses as toextend thearea of thesensitive l '.lhe annexed drawines iiiakiinT iai-t of this b i .e l

eater degrcethan in theappallO specification, exhibit the most desirable mode of carrying out the improvement.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the construction. Fig. 2 is an end elevation, being that end of the construction against which the ground glass and negative are placed. Fig. 3 is a View on the line z c ofFg. 1, looking toward the lenses. Fig. 4 isa View on the same line c c, looking lfrom the lenses. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section ou the line a; .fr of Fig. 1, and Fig. 6 is a vertical section on the line y y of Fig. 2.

rlhe same 'letters of reference denote the same parts.

A, Figs. 5 6, represents the picture being copied.

B represents the lens-holder.

C' C, &c., represent thelenscs. v

` DDi, &c., represent the compartments, respectively, belonging to the lenses.

The lenses, lensholder, and compartments, together with whatever details necessary to properly unite them, are combined to form a single construction which can be manipulated as a single piece and either by itselfor in connection with the frame of an ordinary photographic camera. As the lenses must not only be originally carefully adjusted in position, but also subsequently carefully retained in place, the lens-holder B is composed of a material-suoli as plastcrof-parismwhich is unaffected or substantially unaffected by the moisture of the atmosphere, as otherwise a material variance in the degree of humidity of the atmosphere is liable to so disarrange thel lenses as to materially interfere with their proper working. In the present instance the lens-holder, by means of a suitable frame, E, Figs. 5 (i, is attached to a'plate, F, and that in turn is backed with the two wooden pieces G ll, the grain t of the two pieces running in cross directions. rl"he piece H is fastened to the shell l, which serves toinclose mainly the compartments D', D2, t\:c., andthe shell in turn is contained in an outer frame,`J. These parts, l F G li I J, as described,4 answer my purpose very well, but not all of them are neeessary, and i desire not to be `confined specially thereto, as this portion of the structure may be variously fashioned and made, soloug as the lenses are properly held and the eompartments properly shaped and extended.

The placing of the lenses-and the forming of the compartments will now be described 'more particularly. The size and proportions of the sheet of multiple pictures are determined, as

also that of one of the multiple pictures. Thiscan be understood by referring to Figs. 5, 6, and,i more especially to Fig. 2, as the sheet coincides with the combined openings d at the end di of the compartments D D2, Se, and the multiple pictures respectively coincide with the openings d. The size of the picture A copied is taken into consideration, as well as its distance from the lenses. It must be spaced suiiieiently from the lenses to enable vall of them to catch the picture; and', on the other hand, the lenses must respectively focus at the en d d of the compartments D', D?, dye. In practice the picture A. is usually arranged fortyinches from the lenses, and thecompar'tments D', Di, die., are usually s ix inches in length when stamp portraits or pictures are to be ltaken from cabinetsized photographs. rlhc picture copied is placed closer, and the compartments are enlarged at the outer end when larger-sized pictures are to be taken. a As the multiple pictures are directly alongside each other, the lenses must be grouped closely, so closely in fact that they have to be reduced, in practice, to a diameter not exceeding onchalt of an inch when the smallest-size pictures are to be taken. As the stamp portraits or multiple pictures are in the present instance longer vertically than transversely, the lenses, as'seen in Fig. 3, are somewhat farther apart vertically than transversely and in accordance with the proportions of the picture; but whether spaced apart more in one direction than in the other, the lenses are so near to each other as to cause the partitions di, which form the compartments D, D, Ste., to be nearer together -at the end d of the compartments than at the end d. The compartments D', D, die., therefore enlarge from the end d" to the end d', substantially as is represented, but with this exception, it being more convenient to make the structure square`or squarish externally, it (meaning the combined compartments D', D, tie.) 'is of the same dimensions externally at one end as at the other, and hence those of the compartments D', D, &c., which are next to the shell 'I are carried ont square at the end di. They could be made to taper like the'interior compartments, which necessarily taper, as described. The compartments, in effect, begin at the diaphragm if., which is located against Ithe piece I-i and used for the same purpose the ordinary diaphragm is used for. The compartments, in the present instance, extcnd beyondthe shell l", the exteir sion L, in practice, being of metal, preferably copper, as thereby the extreme end of the partitions d can be brought down thin and true to good advantage'. The partitions of the extension L are preferably parallel, asthereby a better` effect is produced. ln practice lenses, even of the same kind, vary slightly as to ."oL

cus; hence in making appliances of the hindunderconsideration it becomes necessary ot'- ten in finally adjusting the lenses to malte allowance for the slight variance alluded to by testing each lense in sii/u and placing it accordingly, andso that it shall focus evenly with the others.

rihe invention is best carried out by arranging the lenses in a-n are, M, Figs. 5, 6, of a circle whose center is at the point occupied by the picture'A. 'The lines N, Figs. 5, 6, are drawn for the purpose of indicating the location of the various lenses with reference to the pictures to be copied and the pictures to be taken. rltho lines are broken, from lack of kroom upon the sheet. Thenulnbers l, 2, 3,

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Snc., however, indicate'the connection, the line numbered I at the left connecting with the line numbered l at the right, and soon. AVlhere the lines 1 and B cross, is the position ot the 5 lower lens, as shown in Fig. o; where thelines 4 and 6 cross, the position of the next lens, and so n. The position of the lenses in the other-direction is similarly indicated in Fig. 6. XVith all the parts thus adjusted, and the o picture A always held in. thesa-me place, the

sheets of multiple pictures can be rapidly made, it only being necessary to-drop the picture Aiuto its rest and then expose the sensitized plate as rapidly as the pictures can be 5 taken. In practice the sensitized plate is not placed directly against the end of the extension L, but a slight distanfie-say three thirtyseconds of an'inch-therc vhom. This enables the light to shine from`v tn-. ends of abutting 3 apartments crosswis'e past the edge of the partition, and by using a mat upon the picture A, with a White margin, the lines 'of separation between the multiple pictures will show white, and thereby the pictures can be made more dis- ;tinct upon the sheet and more readily separated. The rest for the picture A, and also for the apparatus, is not shown. The lenses used are achroma'tic, are convex onthe side toward the picture copied, and slightly concave on the opposite side.A y

l. The herein-described photographic apparatus, consisting of the lenses and the light.- .exeludiug compartments, the lenses being closely grouped and iocused on substantially' radial lines, as described, and said compartments being correspondingly arranged, asset forth.

2. The herein described photographieapparatus, the same consisting of the lenses grouped and radially focused closely together, and the enlarging radially-arranged compartments immediately contiguous with each other and equal in number to said lenses, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a picture-rest at a fixed distance therefrom, the herein-described photographic apparatus, the same consisting` of the lenses grouped and radially focused,

as described, and the enlarging radially-arranged compartments immediately contiguous with eachother and equal in number to said lenses, substantiallyl as set forth.

4. A.. photographie apparatus having the l which the sensitized plate is used, substantially as described. n 5. In a photographi apparatus, the comblnation of the lenses C Cz, the lens-holder, and the series of immediately contiguous-compartments D' D2, adapted tov produce a photo- 'graphic sheet in which the fac-siniiles. are

alongside each other, the lenses and compartments being equal in number, the former being radially focused and tlielatter radially arranged as described, and each of the compart- `n1ents being provided with one of said lenses,

substantially as set forth.

6. A photographic apparatus having the lenses C C2, the lens-holder B, and the compartments D D2, said lenses being spaced-:in

one directionfarther apart than in the crossdirection, and said compartments enlarging in the direction of the point Where the sensitized plate used, and. at the end d. .bei ng extended in one direction more than the crossdirection, as described.

7. The combination, with the lenses, the lens-frame F, the shell I, containing the lightexcluding compartments arranged to correspond 'with the focusing ofthe lenses, and the veneers G H, arranged withtheir grains crosswise and secured tothe inner of said compartment-Shell, Substantially as described.

Witness my hand.

' HENRY KUHN.

, 'Witnesscsf C. D. MOODY, I. W. U. SANFORD. 

